· Private foundation
Melvin a Lipsitz Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPRIGHT AFRICA | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UAUPRIGHT AFRICA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue -41%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF WACO & CENTRAL TX4× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue -11%
- CSCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL4× · 2017–2022 · $12k
Funded once
- WFWACO FAMILY MEDICINE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
CREATIVE WACOone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -3%- SPST PAULS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas
Start up waco is a texas nonprofit organization formed via collaboration of cross-sector partnerships that aspire to lead waco's entrepreneurial support efforts and elevate waco as a hub for business innovation.
Festival on the brazos is a non-profit volunteer organization that promotes the unique spirit of waco by sharing waco's history, providing educational scholarships, and creating community-minded connections.
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
To engage and enrich our community by providing outstanding arts programming and cultural activities that inspire creativity and participation.
The Texas Association of Museums strengthens the Texas museum community through collaborations, connections, professional development, and advocacy.
The mission of the waco civic theatre, a non-profit organization, is to provide the heart of texas community with quality live theatre, to create an outlet for community education and participation in all aspects of productions, and to…
Preserve the aviation history of the weaver aircraft company
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and promote the history, cultural arts, and past traditions of weslaco, texas, and its surrounding region.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cameron Park Zoological & Botanical Society and the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UPRIGHT AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF WACO & CENTRAL TX ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE WACO ↗
- Who funds Tourette Syndrome Association of Texas ↗
- Who funds CAMERON PARK ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Brazos Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WACO MAMMOTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP WACO BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Waco Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Melvin a Lipsitz Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.